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נָבִיא

navi · prophet

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5030 · appears 315 times in the Bible

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What it means

navi (נָבִיא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “prophet”.

A person to whom God speaks and who speaks in his name; he also intercedes for others.

How to say it

na·vi

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Someone who speaks for YHWH.
  2. Someone who speaks for another, like Aaron.
  3. A false prophet, or of other gods.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Prophet: one who speaks on God's behalf. BDB defines it as a prophet or, generally, an inspired man. From the same root is the verb נָבָא, “prophesy” (H5012).

Historical and cultural background

1 Samuel 9:9 notes that “the prophet of today was formerly called the seer”. Exodus 7:1 shows what a prophet is: Aaron would be Moses' prophet because he would speak for him, as Exodus 4:16 already says: “he will be a mouth for you”.

How we translate it

“Prophet” 167 times, “prophets” 148. This edition always writes “prophet”, with no deviations.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • prophet ×167
  • prophets ×148

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 20:7

    Now then, return the man’s wife, for he is a prophet, and he will pray for you, and you will live. But if you do not return her, know that you will surely die, you and all who are yours.”

  • Exodus 7:1

    YHWH said to Moses, “See, I have made you as Elohim to Pharaoh, and Aaron your brother will be your prophet.

  • Numbers 11:29

    But Moses said to him, “Are you jealous for me? If only all the people of YHWH were prophets, that YHWH would put his spirit on them!”

  • Numbers 12:6

    And he said, “Hear now my words: If there is a prophet among you, I, YHWH, make myself known to him in a vision; in a dream I speak with him.

  • Deuteronomy 13:1

    If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder,

  • Deuteronomy 13:3

    you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or to that dreamer of dreams, for YHWH your Elohim is testing you to know whether you love YHWH your Elohim with all your heart and with all your soul.

  • Deuteronomy 13:5

    But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken turning aside against YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slaves, to drag you away from the way in which YHWH your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall remove the evil from among you.

  • Deuteronomy 18:15

    A prophet from among you, from your brothers, like me, YHWH your Elohim will raise up for you; to him you shall listen,

  • Deuteronomy 18:18

    A prophet I will raise up for them from among their brothers, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he shall speak to them all that I command him.

  • Deuteronomy 18:20

    But the prophet who acts with arrogance by speaking a word in my name that I have not commanded him to speak, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet shall die.”

  • Deuteronomy 18:22

    When the prophet speaks in the name of YHWH and the word does not come about or come true, that is the word that YHWH has not spoken; with arrogance the prophet has spoken it; you shall not be afraid of him.

  • Deuteronomy 34:10

    And there has not arisen again a prophet in Israel like Moses, whom YHWH knew face to face,

  • Judges 6:8

    YHWH sent a man, a prophet, to the sons of Israel, and he said to them, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel: ‘I brought you up from Egypt and brought you out of the house of slaves.

  • 1 Samuel 3:20

    And all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of YHWH.

  • 1 Samuel 9:9

    (Formerly in Israel, this is what a man said when he went to inquire of Elohim: “Come, let us go to the seer”; for the prophet of today was formerly called the seer.)

  • 1 Samuel 10:5

    After that you will come to Gibeah of Elohim, where are the garrisons of the Philistines; and it will happen, as you come there to the city, that you will meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place, and before them harp and tambourine and flute and lyre, and they will be prophesying.

  • 1 Samuel 10:10

    When they came there, to Gibeah, look, a band of prophets came to meet him; and the spirit of Elohim came mightily on him, and he prophesied among them.

  • 1 Samuel 10:11

    And it happened, when all who knew him before saw that he was prophesying with the prophets, that the people said to one another, “What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?”

  • 1 Samuel 10:12

    And a man from there answered and said, “And who is their father?” Therefore it became a proverb: “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

  • 1 Samuel 19:20

    Saul sent messengers to take David; and they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing, stationed over them; and the spirit of Elohim was upon the messengers of Saul, and they too prophesied.

  • 1 Samuel 19:24

    He too stripped off his clothes, and he too prophesied before Samuel, and fell down naked all that day and all the night. Therefore they say, “Is Saul also among the prophets?”

  • 1 Samuel 22:5

    Gad the prophet said to David, “Do not stay in the stronghold. Go and enter the land of Judah.” So David went and entered the forest of Hereth.

  • 1 Samuel 28:6

    Saul inquired of YHWH, but YHWH did not answer him, either by dreams or by Urim or by prophets.

  • 1 Samuel 28:15

    Samuel said to Saul, “Why have you disturbed me by bringing up me?” Saul said, “I am in great distress, for the Philistines are fighting against me, and Elohim has turned away from me and no longer answers me, either by the hand of the prophets or by dreams; so I have called you to make known to me what I should do.”

  • 2 Samuel 7:2

    that the king said to Nathan the prophet, “See, please: I live in a house of cedar, but the ark of Elohim remains inside the curtain.”

  • 2 Samuel 12:25

    and he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet, and he called his name Jedidiah, for the sake of YHWH.

  • 2 Samuel 24:11

    When David got up in the morning, the word of YHWH came to Gad the prophet, David’s seer, saying,

  • 1 Kings 1:8

    But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei and Rei, and the mighty men who belonged to David were not with Adonijah.

  • 1 Kings 1:10

    But Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, and the mighty men, and Solomon his brother he did not invite.

  • 1 Kings 1:22

    She was still speaking with the king when Nathan the prophet came in.

  • 1 Kings 1:23

    And they told the king, saying, “Look, Nathan the prophet is here.” And he came in before the king and bowed down to the king with his face to the ground.

  • 1 Kings 1:32

    And King David said, “Call Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada to me.” And they came before the king.

  • 1 Kings 1:34

    And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there as king over Israel; and blow the horn and say, ‘Long live King Solomon!’

  • 1 Kings 1:38

    So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites went down and set Solomon on the mule of King David, and brought him to Gihon.

  • 1 Kings 1:44

    The king has sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, and they have set him on the king’s mule.

  • 1 Kings 1:45

    And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him as king at Gihon, and they have gone up from there rejoicing, and the city is in an uproar. That is the sound that you heard.

  • 1 Kings 11:29

    And it happened at that time, when Jeroboam went out from Jerusalem, that Ahijah the Shilonite, the prophet, found him on the road; and he had covered himself with a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the field.

  • 1 Kings 13:11

    Now an old prophet lived in Bethel; and his son came and told him all the deeds that the man of Elohim had done that day in Bethel; the words that he had spoken to the king, they told them to their father.

  • 1 Kings 13:18

    He said to him, “I too am a prophet like you, and an angel spoke to me by the word of YHWH, saying, ‘Bring him back with you to your house, so that he may eat bread and drink water.’” He lied to him.

  • 1 Kings 13:20

    And it happened, as they were sitting at the table, that the word of YHWH came to the prophet who had brought him back;

And 275 more times.